The literature on "missing girls" suggests a net preference for sons both in China and among Chinese immigrants to the … responding to worse health at birth of Chinese-American girls. We document higher rates of low birth weight, congenital anomalies … more aggressive neonatal hospital care for girls. Relative to non-Chinese gender differences, death on the first day of …

children have higher expectations for boys than they do for girls. Our results suggest that son preference is detrimental to … the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of … probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts that school age girls will migrate with their parents - a difference that …

health in a rural and urban community in Nepal. It shows that adolescent girls in these communities have dreams and … restrictive, especially for girls, who are often unable to realise their hopes for continuing education, finding better-paid work … of adolescent girls' lives provides a valuable framework for designing positive programmatic actions which take as their …